Cecile Ringgenberg

Cécile Ringgenberg, Doctor of Law from the University of Zurich and lawyer at the Geneva Bar, personally handles all cases entrusted to the firm.

After several years of practicing international humanitarian law at the ICRC in Geneva and Africa, she joined UBS for an internship in banking practice in Geneva and Zurich followed by a position as a lawyer in the bank’s Estates Department in Geneva.

Subsequently, she completed her legal traineeship in Geneva where she obtained her law degree in 1976.

Then, she was a legal advisor at CERN for three years, which allowed her to become familiar with the law of international organizations.

Drawing on these experiences, she opened her law firm in 1979.

Since then, she has acquired extensive judicial and extra-judicial experience, particularly in her preferred areas of expertise, which are family law, inheritance law, contract law, international organizations law, banking law and economic criminal law.

In her work in banking law, she and a colleague successfully argued a landmark case before the Federal Supreme Court concerning documentary credits. (BGer 4C.66/2004 of 01.06.2004) In white-collar crime, she successfully defended the interests of victims in several international investment fraud cases.

Fluent in French, English, German and Italian and with ongoing relationships with her correspondent lawyers, particularly in France, England, Germany, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, she is comfortable in the international context.

She is a member of the Geneva Bar Association (ODA), the Swiss Bar Association (FSA) and the European Bar Association (DACH).

In addition, she gives annual lectures at the “Symposium on Economic Crime” in Cambridge (GB), her most recent topics having been “The Rise and Fall of Swiss Banking Secrecy” and “Money Laundering through the Art Market”.